La cura di sé a fondamento di una rinascita politica e sociale: il compito dell'educazione

The quality of the political and social environment we are surrounded by mirrors the attention we pay to the relations with ourselves and with the others. However, in the contract-based society where we live, where individual “success” is an answer to external logics of prestige and where social bonds are created to defend individual interests, we can witness a lack of cultural awareness and an absence of places and systematic practices that help people becoming self-aware. The paper considers this care to relations, understood as the “well-being of the soul” (eudaimonia), as the necessary push for a cultural, political, and social rebirth based on a greater commitment to teaching people to listen and to the fulfillment of the desire to grow the seeds of goodness inherent in everyone.